Up For Sale.

The house at the corner(that used to be my friend T( from our old church's) childhood home and has had 4 or so different owners since we've been here 18 years) has just been put up for sale and they're asking a whopping 694K for it, too, which no one around here would pay; the only way they'd ever get that much would be if buyers come from Toronto where the average price is over a million$ and they'd think it was cheap!  We'd be lucky to get 10$ for ours the kids wrecked it and plus it's also all falling apart and we can't afford repairs. When we had a realestate guy come over a couple of years ago to aapraise it he said just over 200K even with 7 bedrooms and an inground pool. We'd never be able to find anything else for that price so what's even the point  of moving? When we sold our old Ottawa house we only got 20K more than we paid for it, but didn't really make a profit since we spent more than double that on renovations and when the people that bought it from us sold it recently they got something like 350K profit on it! The neighbour's was listed for over 400K when they bought it but put thousands and thousands of upgrades to it and the outside was a gaudy diarrhrea green before and looks better white now but they ruined the inside making it all white; the people before had it a nice rustic "cabin" feel with the natural wood,fireplace, bricks and stones.

So here we get to take a peek into my neighbour's house, obviously cleaned than it would really look since they have 2 little kids, around ages 2 and 4. I think it looks too "sterile" though all white, too boring. I like vibrant colours and for it to look "lived" in.This looks more like something you'd see modelled in some sort of homemaking magazine rather than a  comfy cozy home a family would comfortably live in. I wonder why they're moving though esp. after putting so much $$$$ into it? I wonder if it's due to their asshole neighbour on the one side( who also annoys their neighbour on the other side,too) or maybe it's due to his job and he has to move?Certainly NOT for space; it's a big 4 bedroom house with a yard and there's only the 4 of them.... It's always kind of sad for me too to see people leave for some reason. I also can't believe it's been 11 days the 18 YR old's been in Vancouver already and it's actually not as hard on me as I thought it would be even though I do miss her but maybe due to the fact that I already "lost" her years ago so when she physically left it wasn't so bad or as hard, and my Irish friend S said his biggest regret in life is not having kids and me and 2 others told him that for us having  kids was our biggest regret and if I had only known then what I know now; all the stress, trauma, anxiety, fear,  worry,and heartbreak it would cause me then I never would have done it. I would have been better off staying single...and alot less traumatized.

This morning I also put the petals from my wilting orange roses in my bath water to soak in to absorb the oils and with the fading colours and crispy edges they looked like fall leaves floating in the water, and last night the 26 YR make Baklava and it took him forever with all the layers of the paper-thin Phyllo pastry and he used almonds instead of the traditional pistachio nuts  but it still turned out really good (even though I only got 1 small piece) and I wanted to get a photo of it for this blog but I couldn't as he has it all covered up in tin-foil and cellophane to take to work today to share with his co-workers which is nice although I was hoping it would be for us! He's become quite the good cook, like the oldest, too, who when he first moved out for university all he could cook was toast and oatmeal and now he's like a chef!

I also have this tiny bump and insane itch in-between the side of my left boob and arm-pit but due to it's location I can't actually take a look and see what it is. I assume some sort of bug bite and I hope it's just a mosquito though and NOT a tick, and yesterday my right shoulder hurt too with no explanation as I never hurt it and abdomenal pain was sooooo bad the pain even radiated up to my mid-back and I was sweating profusely I felt like a faucet and everything's just all falling apart, like erosion on the side of a  cliff along the highway! Getting old really sucks, and I saw a news report as well that the Seychelles is the most vaccinated country too but now also have what they're calling  the highest Corona infection rates they blame on the "New Variant" but sounds more to me like vaccine reactions....but, of course, they would never admit that, and even if it wasn't, it still means their vaccines don't work. Either way, something just doesn't "add up" here. It never does.

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.- Kurt Vonnegut